Articles - Wildlife

As we have recently booked a trip back to Africa — something that we wish to do as often as possible — we have started to get into 'the zone', which has resulted in us watching movies about or set in Africa, as well as African wildlife documentaries.  While watching one documentary over the weekend [ continue reading ]

It has been a while in the making, but I am pleased to announce that we are returning to South Africa in 2022 for another wildlife photographic safari.  This year marks ten years since our first trip to Africa — a trip which profoundly changed our lives and made us want to go back to [ continue reading ]

Earlier this year, I learned of an urban watering hole, at which various species of birds could be found.  During my first visit to this watering hole, I saw the potential, and decided that it would be a good location to visit at another time and photograph the bird life there.  Recently, after an afternoon [ continue reading ]

Yesterday I decided to start looking back through the many thousands of images I captured during our most recent trip to Kenya in 2019.  It has now been over two years since that wonderful trip, and sometimes, in the excitement of the 'now', it is easy to overlook images that should have published.  Additionally, the [ continue reading ]

For quite a while now, I have been photographing the rainbow lorikeets which visit our garden.  Our garden consists of mostly native Australian plants and trees, and the rainbow lorikeets particularly love to feed on the grevillea bushes we have.  We are fortunate to have these colourful birds visit our garden almost daily, and often [ continue reading ]

With the new year having arrived, the Africa Geographic Photographer of the Year 2021 competition has been launched.  I entered last year's competition, and to my surprise, one of my images made it to the top 101 of the 37,853 entries, which was quite an achievement for me, and one I did not expect.  I have [ continue reading ]